The Jewish Daily Forward

On Saturday morning, a white nationalist walked in to the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, and killed 11 people as of the last count.

His declared reason for this carnage was a hatred of HIAS, a Jewish organization that advocates for refugees, founded in 1881.

The organization does have a chapter in Pittsburgh, but it’s unclear if there were any direct links between them and the Tree of Life synagogue where the massacre occurred.

It was an act of anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant nationalism that motivated the shooter, and one that, sadly, parts of the Jewish community have helped promote.

For Jewish leaders have stood by while other communities have been targeted, indifferent to other humans’ suffering and ignoring the reality that all forms of bigotry are connected.

It’s not only Jewish leaders who had made this mistake. Caitlyn Jenner, one of the most high-profile transgender women in the country and also a lifelong Republican, made this mistake, too. She supported Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Only after three years of Trump’s demagoguery towards Blacks, Muslims, Immigrants, Mexicans, women, and the disabled, did Jenner finally revoke her support — only after the Administration inevitably targeted trans people.

Jenner’s rebuke was not an act of defiance, but a revelation of depraved cowardice. She had watched silently for years as the people around her and people who escape her line of vision were openly attacked by Trump, both as a candidate and as President, only to protest when she was in the line of fire.

Sadly, this particular type of self-centeredness is one that is endemic to certain elements of the Jewish community, too. Many have watched as the crimes which have been committed against us historically have been, during the Trump administration, repeated against others, while the majority of of Jews in America have been increasingly afforded the status and benefits of conditional whiteness.

Leaders like Shmuley Boteach and Zionist Organization of America President Mort Klein have embraced Trump’s former right-hand man, the white nationalist Steve Bannon. The Anti-Defamation League’s President Jonathan Greenblatt attended the Jerusalem Embassy opening, a Trump initiative that diminished the Palestinian cause. Trump’s fellow casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who has given millions to Trump and other GOP candidates, has supported —literally — Trump’s worst impulses.

Then there are the countless synagogue Rabbis and leaders who have embraced Trumpism.

My old neighborhood of Crown Heights, which is the epicenter of Chabad Judaism, voted overwhelmingly for Trump. He carried one precinct with 58% of the vote in a borough that went to Clinton by 79%.

It’s not like his intentions were ever secret. Trump started off his campaign by promoting the idea that immigrants are here to kill and rape people. He started an office for the purpose of reporting crimes by undocumented immigrants. When Mollie Tibbets was killed by an undocumented immigrant, he sounded the alarm that change was urgent.

A GOP congressman, Matt Gaetz, promoted the idea that Jewish Billionaire George Soros was funding the migrant caravan headed for the US, which Trump has portrayed as a national threat.

The connection between the violent and hateful environment promoted by this agenda and the violence committed in Pittsburgh is undeniable. The alleged shooter, identified in press reports as Robert Bowers, explicitly referred to the “Jews” funding the caravan coming from Honduras — no doubt a nod to a Trump rally where the idea was floated between the president and his audience.

If it hasn’t been clear before, it should be clear now: There is a reciprocal relationship between racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, white nationalism and anti-Semitism.

Trump has expressed racist sentiments explicitly and repeatedly. White nationalists have the implicit support of Trump and the explicit, out right support of many of his supporters. Anti-Semitism is a sentiment that Trump has touched upon in several of his tweets and in past statements.

But all bigotries are intimately connected. Supporting any one of those three bigotries gives de facto support to the other two, no matter how vociferously you disavow or condemn them.

When Trump’s high-profile supporters choose to ignore these escalations while seizing on the outbursts of Nation of Islam Chief Louis Farrakhan, who has far less power, they are giving de facto support to a genocidal agenda.

Now that Jewish blood has been spilled, will the leaders recognize the threat they’ve been ignoring for so long?

It is time for the high-profile leaders of the Jewish community to step up and show moral courage or be held accountable.

It is not enough that they only call out the specific language and verbiage of anti-Semitism when it suits them; they must recognize the relationship between rhetoric, power, oppression and status.

3 thoughts on “How They Do It–'Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Should Be A Wakeup Call For those Jews Who Support Trump'”
  1. So, Basically your saying that it’s the Jews own fault for supporting the president when a racist lunatic attacks them.

    ed note–that’s not what’s being said at all. It is a repost of another story underscoring the extent to which Jews as a group are utterly inimical to Trump and how they are now going to use this latest event as the fuel in eventually burning down his presidency.

  2. Again, I don’t believe a word of this nonsense.
    There are four basic possibilities:
    1. The entire thing was a planned and coordinated hoax, where no Jews were killed. [MOST LIKELY]
    2. The thing was partially executed by the Jew upon the Jews in the synagogue and Jews were ‘actually’ killed (sacrificed upon the altar of Judaism for the greater good, where the crumbling narrative of the eternal victim has lost its credibility, altogether). The killer was some sort of deep state, MK-ULTRA patsy. [POSSIBLE, but slightly less likely]
    3. The thing actually happened, as stated, but was carried out by some deranged psychotic lunatic, who was not in control of his mental faculties. [POSSIBLE…but his comments, if his, indicate some level of effective reasoning capacity, where the Jew was correctly identified as the culprit in the unmitigated HATRED and genocide against gentiles and their culture]
    4. The thing actually happened, as stated, where some hero of gentile culture finally took action on, what most aware whites know must be done to save themselves but refuse to do, because of the ramifications (perhaps, death), and took out some local trash. [LEAST LIKELY…and unbelievable, altogether, where whites, more likely to use their brains, don’t behave this way]
    The timing of this event is what gives us the most concern.
    1. Upcoming elections.
    2. 800 Facebook groups and pages, deleted the week before.
    3. 100 times that number of Facebook profiles hammered with 30 day bans, concurrently.
    4. Gab, the biggest competitor of Twitter, the (((media censorship whore))) is directly implicated. Twitter and Facebook, who’ve also had issues, not mentioned or targeted, being bastions of Jewry and Jewish controlled servers.
    5. First comments from ‘survivors’ (lol), we’ve got to institute “gun control” on Americans and kill these white nationals. Trump must denounce white nationals. etc…
    6. Shooter is a allegedly a white male (nuff said there for anyone paying attention to the media whorehouse absolute submarining of this ethnic group).
    It’s all about the victimhood of the (((precious precious))). And any challenge to that status, must be dealt with in the most bold and daring manner possible. Even most sites aware of the crimes of Judea Inc., have jumped on the “poor Jews” bandwagon and have thrown this alleged shooter under the bus. Very little, too little in fact, has been said about Judaic criminality and butchery in response to this alleged incident. And most disturbingly and damning is that not one single Jew or Jewish organization has stood up and proclaimed the obvious, i.e…the Jew has reaped finally, what it sowed. And as long as NOT ONE SINGLE (((ORGANIZATION))) comes forth to proclaim the obvious, this ‘thing’ stands as an uncontested HOAX.
    ed note–as in previous high-intensity events such as Sandy Hook, Boston Marathon Bombing, etc, it is in commentary such as this where an otherwise intelligent and important discussion goes off the rails into a realm where normal Americans with an ounce of common sense are simply not willing to go, and as a result, we wind up losing a vitally important battle in the court of public opinion and thus have empowered our enemies even further.
    There is nothing to suggest that Bowers didn’t do this, or that he was incapable of doing it. Anyone who has spent 5 seconds around many WN types knows intimately that many of them are psychologically imbalanced and fueled only by rage, and just as there are people of Islamic/Middle Eastern background who are willing to engage in violent retribution for those they (rightly) claim are responsible for evil acts that were done to them likewise there are WN types willing to do the same.
    At some point, we’re going to have to drop all this ‘hoax’ business and just accept the fact that sometimes people get mad and they do stupid things that in the end work in the interests of Judea, Inc. Does this mean that we have been given all the facts as they pertain to this? No. I accept the likelihood that Bowers was ‘pushed’ into doing this by outside forces but do I take this likelihood and from there draw it out into an elaborate theory that it was all just a ‘hoax’ that never took place?
    Hell no, and nor should any other sane person claiming to work against what it is that Judea, Inc is doing to all of us, because at the end of the day, dabbling in such business only works in THEIR favor, not ours.

  3. “Now that JEWISH BLOOD has been spilled, will the leaders recognize the threat they’ve been ignoring for so long?
    It is time for the high-profile leaders of the Jewish community to step up and show moral courage or be held accountable.
    It is not enough that they only call out the specific language and verbiage of anti-Semitism when it suits them; they must recognize the relationship between rhetoric, power, oppression and status.”
    The Jewish Daily Forward has just issued a call to arms (not actual armaments in Yewish hands, but bringing all of the Yewish levers of POWER to bear) to worldwide Yewry to implement, no holds barred, whatever sayanim role they’ve been given to depose of this duly elected President.
    An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and BLOOD FOR BLOOD.

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